Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:55:44 -0500 From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <lists@tntluoma.com> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3 and SMP(HTT) Message-ID: <4365-SnapperMsgD246FC56BE2ACD69@[68.243.8.161]> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050204165424.00bf3c28@cheyenne.wixb.com> References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050204165424.00bf3c28@cheyenne.wixb.com>
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...... Original Message ....... On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:56:39 -0600 "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> wrote: >(there is only 1 CPU in this machine and NO way to add another) but I do >want to get any benefit from HTT - presuming a benefit actually exists. > the general concensus is that HTT does NOT give a benefit. There have been other conversations about this within the past month or so. As I recall, there is a trade off in "waiting" which has to happen. HTT is something of a hack to deal with a long instruction pipeline in the new P4.
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